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Virginia Republicans are taking aim at a Democratic state lawmaker who played a key role in pushing through congressional redistricting in the state and is now running for newly drawn U.S. House seat.

El Salvador’s president has finally secured the changes that will enable him to serve in office for life. By a 57-3 margin, El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly last week approved constitutional ...

A federal judge unloaded on President Trump in a ruling Thursday calling his firing of a member of the National Labor Relations Board a “power grab,” “flat wrong” and “a blatant violation of the law.” ...

The last few weeks have put in full display the level of chaos and dysfunction of the Eric Adams’ administration. So it is quite rich that this mayor, indicted for corruption and already deeply ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order aiming to standardize federal election procedures across states. The order has drawn criticism from voting rights groups and some election officials, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On Tuesday, exactly two weeks after the November 5 election, the ...

Then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) is flanked by Sens. John Thune (R-South Dakota), left, and John Cornyn (R-Texas) on Capitol Hill in October 2017. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP) Even ...

Former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke and other Texas Democrats rallied in Fort Worth Saturday in opposition to Republican efforts to redraw the state’s congressional districts — including lawmakers who fled ...

On December 11, the Santa Barbara Unified School Board will vote on a “Housekeeping” power grab that would quietly strip its highly qualified community representative Finance Committee chair of their ...